How Hitler Died

It was April 30, 1945, and Berlin,
the capital of Adolf Hitler's tottering Third Reich, was a shattered,
flaming inferno. Tanks and troops of Soviet General Vasily Chuikov's
Eighth Guards army had fought to within a few blocks of the Reich
Chancellery. The end was clearly at hand. Some time after lunch that
day, Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite
in the Führer's underground bunker to take their lives. They left
instructions that their bodies be burned.